Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 22, 1879, Page 10

it) THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY MARCH 22, 1979—SEXT ‘EN PAGES. citeuuistances under which the army may be fed, clothed, ete, tompairarity, tupon the fallure of anappropriation, would, In all probability, oveaaton rather than provent difflcalty nil ¢ ger. We cannot look Intu the future and anti pato the emergeneles that niay hapren, ‘The cor tnon and frequant geeurrence, under the ext Ing rules of the Hofise, will be a difference be- tween the two Mouses ss tothe propricty of new Iegtelation iu an Appropriation bill; but It would not be wise to specify this, and this ex. chide all other emergencies, because war or pestilence may foterfere with the retlar pro- ecedings of Congress, aul many other unforee Feen dglgencies mny ari¢o, witch for auuht we kot, might inake the preservation af our army fmperatively necesaary at ie very thine when, unter the polley proposed by the ninjority of the Committee, the mmy would coass to exist, It fe nuegested by thy report of the majority of ths Corminittce thnt the statute In question atunds in the way of the doctrine that a stand. ingarmy in time of peste should not oxist with. out the consent of Congrusa; but wo submit that thisfeun error, ‘The army fs, und undor the Constitution mist always retnaliy com pletely undor control of Congress. ‘Shu ma- Jority have fallon {nto the error of assuming the failure of the two Iouscs to agres upon an Army Appropriation hill, of upon the now Jegialation which one House may propose to thrust into such a bill, asa refuanl by Conuress toconsent to the contintted oxistonce of an army. Congress may abany thine abolish the army, but one House of Congress cannot do so. It requires the affirmative action of both Horses to accompllan aitch a result, nud the negative action of one Liouse is notenongh. The doctrine of the majority of the Committeo, fairly stated, would be, that the army inay ai DEMOCRATIC. PROGRAM, The Army to Be Disbanded if There Are No Approprias tions. “Reports of fhe Majority and Miurity of the Atmy-HEspenditure Committee of tho Kinet Mouse, From Our Own Correspondent, Waanmmaton, D. C., March 18.--Tho policy of the Democrats towards the Admintetration for _, having sustained the army Inst year for a num: “her of months without an avpropriation, {8 out- Hined in the report mado by Mr. Blackburn, of Kentucky, Chafrman of the Committers on Ex- penditures in the War Departinent, of the last Congress, which has only jurt seen the llelt. InYio course of thls report, Mr. Blackburn, and ‘all the Democratic members of the Committee piritee eH that any supplics were : npear that any actually: tarmated by the Paymaster-Ueneral and not paid for during the period under consid- eration. But services wero readered and not aid for, although to warrant for the sume Is to te found in the Jaw under which tho other bureans mentioned nected. However, it_ docs not appear that the Paymastor-Generul atithor- fzed tho rendering of such sorvices by th ie dia iea te one tomes Henelee, but. that those | Sty time be dish yy peril, and upon the strongtb of thetr Individual | Try Cucstion ta, whether tho abolition of the faith that Congress woul subseanently requite them by a retronctive appropriation. From these reports and, avcompanying in- doraementa, which arc on file in the committee: yoom, it appearss , * ae ‘ 1, ‘rhne't he army was malatateed from Juno 80 to Nov, SI, 18773 that contracts were made, supolies furnished, and services rendered, in the absence of appropriation by Congress, to tho amount of over 80,000,000; and that, obligations _ to that amount were Incurred by officers of the Government on: behalf ‘of the Onited States, qwith no-olter basis than ‘tlie probability or pos- sibldty that Congress would subsequently pro- vide for their discharge by a retrodetivo appro- priation. ° bi 2. That, under the construction given by the War Department to Sec. 3,739 of the Revised | Statutes, it !s within the power of the Exceutive branch of the Government to maintain a regular military antl naval fores for at lease the space of one year aibsequent to, atid, if necessary, In du- finncu of, a refusal onthe partof the Legislatiyp branch to voto the requisite appropriatio Inviow of theee facts, it appears that Sec. 8,703 {s jn contravention of n doctrine constitu. tlonal and traditional in the very foundatién of free institutions and representativo poverfiment, to wit: that The maintenunco of a ‘standing prmy fi tino of peace without the consent ot (aviiament) Concress Is contrary to Inw.”? The history of the section iteclf demonstrates that it was a war-meaaure, not designed by tte framers to bu operative in peace. We cannot boliove that avy Congress of the Representatives of the people ain! Senators of the United States evar deliberately onuctedt a law to deprive them- selves, in perpetuity, of thut ubsulute control over, the purscund thesivord of thecountry which is tht constitutional and traditional mantiment af the Legislative branch of all Anglo-Saxon Governments. Sec. 3,703 became olaw ty March, 1861. The -Hstory of {ta introduction, and the revord of debate which preceded its cnuctment, show con- clusively that it was designed a3 @ War-mensure, conceived to meet the posathlo texizencies of wholo military establishment, erected av vast oxpense, und charged with the publle defense, as well as the ente of property of ininensa yalua and public works of great fuiportance, 18 amatter of so much consequence as to require thy allirmative action of the two Houses of Congress, or ninatter ao inslgniticant as ‘to bo accomplished by the action or non-action of one House, We euy that tits is an accurate statc- iment of the fesue, and a moment's reflection will how that we ara right In this statement; for, if the army is not to be disbanded beeause of the fullure ‘of an appropriation for itx sup~ port, it must continue to exist, and must of course continue to be supplied aud clothed. ‘The statute provides only for nocessarics, ‘As wo understand the report of the majority, {t {s not. suggested that any contracts have Veet entered’ inte by the’ War Department except such as, were nuthorized by the sald See,.3,743 of te Rovised Stntutes. tt 16, however, duo to the Departnient tu state, as we do, distinctly, that the records of the Depart- ment will sow that nd contract was made In the absence of. ah appropriation adequate for | its fulfillment, except those authorized by law, being for clothing, subsistence, forage, fuel, quarters, or transportation, and only to, meet the necesaltics for those purposes of ‘the current year. Tho ordera of the Mar Depart- ment upon this subject, and an ovinton of the Attornoy-Cenvral on the same subject, are lterc- with submitted, and will explain fully the actlon of (he Secretary of War, enforcing ‘atrictly. the provisions of the statute. The policy of this Government from Sts organ- ization has been, ‘In peace to prepare for war." and Its history lias demonstrated the necessity of such preparation; and there fs no danger, in following this precept, that the War Depart- ment will actin violation of any Jaw of Con- greas, ‘The courae puraued by. that Depart- ment, upon the failuro fm the Inst Conzress to make appropriation for the support of the army, fa in strict. cumplianco with the existing provis- fons of Inw. No cuntract noc authorized by law miyolying the. Govaraingnt beyond the appra- nflict, aud efigcted as a provision for the * rintions fins been made, and wo ability has _ mala aE fii Ghar ead oe Bean dienrred wot strietly {a complianea with vented .or dolayea “by she Impossibility of a the law, And no instance mi the history of the Government ts cited in the report of the mujor- fly whers the War Department has nut acted Upon the constitutional provision that the mili- tary ty strictly suhordinate to the clyil authority. There Is, therefore, vo reason assigned tn the reportof the majority why its proposition for a change inthe existing Jaw shoutd bo made. Anil certainly the Committee will not .clalin that the Jaw under which the army {s organized can be repented by the refusal of efter House to make the annual appropriations necessary for {te support, So long as the law oxists, itda the duty of Congress to mako the appropriations necesgury to curry it Suto effect. « ‘The prompt action of Congresh at the extra /sesaton of this Congross {n providing the moaus to pay the army for services for which no aporo- priation had been made is a recomnition, in tose of a fallure by the disaureemont of the two Houses oon any proposition which defeated the ap roprintion, that such services were cn- Ulled to be pald and ought to be paid, Ifany other principle should be sanctioned, the logicul result would be that st fain the power of elther House, by refusing to make tho necessary appropriation, to destroy every De- partment of the Government. Neither the Legislative, the Judicial, nor the Executive Department can be sustalnod without appropriations for tts support. Each of these Departinents oxista by virtue of law. if it ts in the power of ether House, by u disagreoment, between the two Houses ae fn Appropriation bill, practically to repeal the law under which the ariny {s organized, then cither [ouse may also in each of the othee Departinents Inthe game way practically put an end to all other De- pares and thus deatroy the Government, sell, ‘The minority, thercfore, upon the tacts and for the reasons bereln brielly stated, respectfully dissent from the propusittun of the majority, und, belleving that ft aught not to be npproved by the House, nud thot any change i the law In neordance therewith would {nvulye the exist~ once of the ory at the will of either House, oud would bo prejuutcial to the beat Interoste of the vountry,, reconnend, as an oxpressfon of the spinon of the House, that this report be sub- atituted for that of tho majority af the Com- meoting of Congress in conseqnanra of Invasion or other warllke exigency. Tt stands on the statute-books now as av anachronism, to bs econstrucd, ua wo havo econ, in prejudice to the control of the armed forves of the United States by the ‘Legislative branch of the Government. It ens- ‘Dies the Executive to surround Itsulf with arm- ed force irrespective of the will of.tha peopla us expressed through the Legislature, It provides al} the meatus of maintaining o standing army without the consent of Congress, except the pay of the troops and a few tniver brauches of sup- ply, for a period of at least ano year subsequent. to the cessation of Legislatlye control ‘by the adjournmneat of Congress. ‘here {a nothlug in the state of the country, proment or prospective, to warrant such i con- jerment of abaolute power upon the Executive branch of the Government, or such a delegation of authority to the servants of the people be- youd the purview and control of thelr Ropre- sentatives. ‘There can bo no difference of opin- fon upon the proposition that the tnilitary and naval forces of the country should beat alt times under the control of the Legislative branch of the Governmont In oll that pertains totheir maintennnce, eubststonce, pay, aud or- panization. Nomancan ever antagonize this proposition, for {uit iy embraced -the very ca- aenco of dopular institutions. Sec. 8,783 of the Revised Statutes, as Inter- preted by the War Department and acted upon during the period between dune 80 and Noy, BO (or 21), 1877, doos antagonize this propuaition, and practically nullifles tho constitutional and traditoual control of the purse nad the sword of the country by the Legislature, Your Committes therefore recammond that it be so moditicd ua to restrict Its operation to the vlass of cases and tho character of contingencies which tho history of its enactment shows thut f was designed to meet, Jo. C. 8, Beacknunn, Chetraan; i Minton A. CuanpLEn, A, V, Rice, Tlewny b. Diokay. Tothis argument the minority of the Com- itteu make anawor in the report which follows. he statements of these two raports urd Iikely to become prominent aubjecte of dabate malin e i Fass, but thia ontire extra session of Congres 4 u J. M. Bawuy, LAKE AMELIA, MINNESOTA. Bright, opalescont, veerless rem, Not one with thee compares Tn all that geaco thu dada ‘That Minnesota wears, Thy sotting woll becomes thy rantr, And beggars speuch to tell; No foll thy Justre needs to prank, ‘Yot thine becomes theu well, | ‘Tho undoraigned, members of the Cotmiittee on Expenditures in the War Department, re- Spectfully dissent from the recommendation of the majority of sald Committee in favor of the repeal or modification of See, 8,%20f the Re- vised Btatutes, which provides as follows: No contract or purchase on behalf of the United tates shall be mare onlces the samo fa authorized y law orig under an appropriation adcquate to tte fulliiment, except in the Wor and Navy Depart. , Monts, for clothing, subsistence, forage, fuel, Quarters, or transportation, which, however, shall Not wxceod tha nocessiticw of the curreut year, ‘The occasion for asklug the repeat of this pro- Vision of the statute, in the opinion of the ma- Jority, ts found Jn the fuct that the War Depart- mont was authorized to maka coutracts “ for clothing, aubsistence, forage, fuel, quarters, anid franeporiations " forthe porlod .of about four gionthg of tho. last fiscal yoar, during which there waa no pppeo ration for~'tha support of the army, the two Houses of Concross hayliy failed to agree upon the Ariny Appropriation bil. ‘The question ts, whether the existence of te army from yenr to year shall depend upon the passage cach year of the annual Appropria+ Hon bill, The proposition of the majority 43) that power ahall bo given to the majorlty of onu House of Cougress to compel the disbuhdings of the army by refusluy, to agreo to on aypropria~ ton for ita support for twelve months. Such hss nover beun the policy of Congress, and it inust occur to any -uuprejudiced mind that itis ‘Thine aval, pobbly Of beauty forin u perfect sceno, Such ad no art could Ima, s ‘Thy changing tinte.-—bige, white, aud groen, — : rin, The hills that half-encircle round “Defend from Arctic storm; ‘Tho plain that forme thy southern bouny Tuviteth Austor warm, Tyo shivered oft thy mirrar-faco Jn aportive wantouness, And watched tho widening ctrcio'a trace With childish oarncatnoay, ere, on thy banks, loug Summor-days, Wilt Sponsor, Chaucer gay, T've clusted all thutr aweutuat lay, With heart aa bilthe av they. Swoet Lake Ainvlia, may thy poaca No echumning man destroy: Tore may eno fund from care release, Calm rest, and qutat Joy, a policy fraught. with creat dauger, ‘The fatlu of an Appropriatign bill iu the Tast hours of iH ‘La Guanae, W. J. H. Hogan. Congress isa contingency which has happened SERA and) may bepoca: again, ‘The recent | Stone Wells of Arizonu—Natural Vormations adoption “Rule 120 of the House, In an Arid Desert, suthorizing Sanys sud all legislation Arisana Sentinel. upon any Appropriation dill, rovldad only it is held Polder to the bill pat shall tend to reduco expenditures, renders conflicte betweea the two Housus upee auch bills fu- evitable, aud increases tenfold the probabitity that Appropriation bills may fail, If it bo sald Mat te casy such a bill falls, the remedy te for the Executive to convene another Convress in extra ecaslon to mect the ewerzency, . the answer is, that tie will bo required for the as- setnbling, Orgcnteation, und uction of a new Congress, and {a tho toterlm of the ariny would ceasy lo have a legal existence, if it fs to exist uo Jonger than it is appropriated for, When it ja conaldered that months sometimes viapae bofore the House of Representatives of a new 88 Can wreY Upon au orcauization und > the olection of olllcera, nnd that the new Con. A wonderful place ts,"Mnajas, ahout thirty miles southeast of Mission Camp. ‘fhe mount- alus haye one face of hard, smooth granite. Ail the water falling upou this basia bas to flow through ning tanks, one aboye the other, ‘The lower tunks aru of easy accoss, and are often drained of their contents by men aul animals || travellug between Yuma and Sonor. ‘The upper tanks aro approached only by circuttous und didlcutt climbing over ropks. ‘To one stand- Ing below they alford to tudication of thelr ex- iatence, nor dovg elimbluy the smooth, steop mouotaln side seem posalblu to ong uyacqualnt- they doit. Inthe upper tanks er Neen known to fall, To this mie of all kiuds in great umber from thy grout watorless country around Tina- jaw. Antelope, mountuin sheep, aud deer of gress might, like ts predecessor, fud it difllcult | several — kings come to herds, — Rabbits Qf hiapossible to agree us to What now law shall | and harce = =oore ons pleuty = aso: ‘be engrafted uvou the Army Appropriation ‘DIN, | where, and ore proy for many coyates ie will be seen that, unless and beautiful Nettle rock foxes, uy supply of the army, in the tanipo 'y absence ol Me usual Spproprlatlousy shall coutiuue to bo authorized: by Jaw, the time may seuu arrive when the whole army will be disbanded by reason of a difference between the two Jlouses, not o8 to the propricty of keeping up au uriny, but us Lo the wadom of curtalu” new louislution aifect. ing the army, In this country the arny exists, und has existed from the curllost duyy of the Republic, by virtue of permancnt Jaw, and vot by virtuo simply of the aunual appropriations for its support, 4¢ ta catablished by statutory thacticnts in the sane manner os the Courts, tie Executive Departments, or the forelyu sery- ice. Frow the passuze of the act of Murch ¥, (799 (i Stat, p. 74), to the prevent, the ary hus existed by yirtue of positive uw; aud uo statcawan heretofore, to our koowlodge, has sugguated, that it aould exist only by virtye of wo frailatouure as that sugeested by the ma- dority of the Commilttes. ‘The terms of thy statute fu question caunot well be linproved. Auy attemut te deling tue One would think that all this game would bo thinued out by the Papago Jodians who fnhubit the couu- try. But these Iudlaus ery superstitious, wud avatd, atu with abject ortore Within twa nulles of this water ura certatnly 150 graves, aud probubly more, euch marked by rows of Btonus Iaid du the turm of ucross. Beores of wen fonished for water huve expended their Just streveth io reacning ‘Tinajus, only to Aid the lower tuuke dry, und, ignorant of Uie upper oues, have lai duivn Iu despatr to div, "The re- tuatne baye been burlud by Jater travelers, and Ue proves marked, Mexican Jushlon, by a cross of otones, During te rush to the gold flelds of Callfornia, cholera uttucked travelers on the road from Muxica, as it did American ial. grante along the Platte; pestiience combined with thirst to produce corpaus ut Tiuajas, Recol- Iections of bicached bones and yrinnlog akults ropuck the gue from Vopaye arrows uid tint jocks, Alter purwing tiruue y ite usual fermen tation tha water becomes clear and pure as ou ja the world; It comes from thu clouds only, growing tich very fast, and were greedy to pos- and, fowlng into: the tanks over {naoluble gra) ite. earries no mineral matter. Every hea raln pours a whirlwind torrent beat t tanka, washing them out to the very botton ne orgile, matter stays belind, The number and varfety of birds here ts murvelo {hem appearing to be of new and species, Ab morning and evening the din of thetr song, confinert by the siiles of the mount- alng, 8 almost dententig. All around Tinajas {s the remarkable veectation of the deserts near ite tanks are many curlous plants nourished by thelr molsture. aloner Chief (Ifayt), the Law Chief (Gen. But- ler), and many other Law Chiefs (Conresamon) anit they all say they ate my friends, and that | shall bave {ustleas but, whlly thelr mouths all talk right, donot understand why nothing is done for my people. C have heard tall aid talk, but nothing t¢done. Good swords do not taat Jong, wiles thes amount to something. Words donot pay for my dead people ‘They do pot pav for my country, now overrun hy white men, They do not protect my father’s grave. T know that my roco' must change. We cannot holt our own with the white men ag we wre. Wo only ask nti oven chanee to live av other inen live. We nak to bo recognized as men, Wo ask int che samo law shall work allke on all met. {the Indian brenks the tay punta hin by the f CUIED JOSEPII, Tho Nex Vereo War fram tho Nex Porco | inw. Ifthe white man breaks the Inw, punish Polnt of Viow—A Remarkabio Articles Lim aleo, Let ine bon free man,—free to travel, free to atop, free to work, froo to trade where 1 chonee, {reo to chousu my own teachers, free to follow the religion of tny fathera, free to think, and tnik, and act for myself,—and 1 will obey every Tuy, or subnilt to the penalty. Whenover the white man treats the Indian as they troat each other, then we will haye nu more wars. ‘The most remarkable article fn the April num- bor of the North American Heview {8 ontiticd, “An Indian's Views on Indian Affairs." ‘The author {s In-mut-too-yah-lat-tat, better known a8 Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces. Hishov Iare writes nsympathetle Introduction, ‘The famous Indian Chief reviows the history of tha Govern- ment'a dealings with his tribe, and gives his verston of the events of the recent war,—a ver- sion differing materially from that of Gen, How- ard aud other white authorities, Mis views can be gathored from the following, nassau t want_the white people to understand my neople. Somo of you think an Indian ike a wild animal. ‘This isa great mistake. I will ell yorall about our people, and then you ean Judea whether an {ndian {s a manor nat. 1 beliove much troble and blood would bo saved Ml we. opened our hearts more. Iwill tell you in my way how the indian secs things. Mur fathers gave us many laws, which they had learned from thelr fathers. Theso laws were good. They told us to treat atl mon as they treated us; That we should never be the first to break a bargaln; that it was a disgrace to tell alice; that we Rhoula speak only. the jolly; that It was a shanic for ong mun to take rom another hia wife or his property without paying for it, We wero taught to belleve that thereat Spirit sees und hears everytiing, and that he nuver forgets. 'The tirst white tnon of your people that came to our eonntry were named Lowls and Clarke, ‘They alsé brought many things that attr peuple bad never acen. ‘They talked straight, and our people gave them agreat feast, aso proof that their hearts were friendly, ‘Thesa men were yery kind, They made presents to our Chiefs, and our people made presents to them. We hac aareat many horses, of which wo gave them what they needed, and they gaye us guns and tobacco inreturn, All the Nez Perces made frlends with Lewis and Clarke, and ngreed to Jet them pass throuch thelr country, and never to make war on white men. This promise the Nez Porces hava never broken. No white man can necuse them of bad faith und speak with strateut tongue. -it has alivays bec the vride of the Nez Perces that they were thu friends of tha white nen. But we soon found that the white meno were NAPHTHA GAS. Change in the Modo of Fighting tho Oty of Clurchos—"conomical Itensons for tho Adoption of the New System, New York Heratt, March 19, On aud after the Ist of uext month tho groat City of Brooklsh will be lighted with naphtha gas, instead of conl gas, As tltcro aro 14,890 Janps in the elty, of which 14,145 are In nightly uae, It may bo inforrod that somebody has a bir contract on hid before the new arrangement can be callod complete. The chlut renson given for the chauge, whieh is ordered by the Board of Aldermen by a voto of 13 to 10, is its economy, —n meneuse especially apropos Just now In view of the fact that the appropriation for Mehting the city fs not anMicient to pay the bills of tha gascompantes. Brooklyn bas been very liberal fu {ta appropriations for yas-bills, the amounts for tho past twenty-two years being as follows: Amount. , 0N0!1a7R 400, 000|1870. These approprintions wero exlinusted, of course, the charges per lamp ranglug from 825 10 827, Of late the service has been far from satisfactory, certalu pata of the elty being left in total darkness long after 8 Inthe ovening, while in’ others the ‘quality of the light was little better than’ that obtatned from the old- fashloned ponny dlp, Repeated ciforts lave been made to change from coal gas to nuphtna, Uut hitherto without success, Ata mecting o! the Board of Alderinen held on the evening of thu 1Uri inst, two reports were presented by a conunittes 10 whom the subject of Hghting the city had been referred. “ Houest John” Frertch renorted in favor of naplitha, aud offered a resolution directly the Board of City Works to enter {nto a coutract with a New York company known as_ the Automatic Gas Lamp anf Lighting Com- pany, at the rate tiamed in thetr pro- posal. yiz.y $20.40 ver lump fora small Ulstrict, ar 314.85 for the entire city. Ald. French's collongues in the Committes fought for the gas compantes, and reported in favor of recontsactinz with them. Au acrid debate fol- lowed, in which Ald. Freneh elated that Brooklyn could not aiford to continue to pay for coal gas; that the appropriation was Insuft- lent; that the light was unsatisfactory; wid that an arrangement with the naphtha company would not only give the lly a better Mluimlua- ton, but do it at o saving of $0,009 n year. Coushlerable feeling: was manifested by the Aldermen on both aldes, ono party Inaisting that the only motivd in the pronosed arrauge- “ment was to compol the gas companies to lower their prices, and the other charging thit, as the naplitha cumpany cliarge’$42.50 a lamp in New Jersey, It.would tudoubted! play gomne game on Brooklyn og soon as the old lamps were stored avay aud the new ones put in place, Finally the polnt was zalscd thot nelther re- ort was Bigned by u,majority of the Cummit- oe, aud the matter was adjourned for a week, It came up again vt, the last mecting of tho Board, when several resuluttons were offered looking to an anileable adjustment of the mat- ter with the gua compgoles, but they wero all yoted down or withdrawn. "Ald. O'Reflly—now in Washington, where ho voted yesterday for Speaker Randali—was excused in the earlier yotes, on the singular plea that he wos “ frisud- ly to both parties and didn't desire to interfere with olther,” but the Buard refused to exeuso him on the final vere, lusisting that bo ought to De made to go on thu record na well a8 his col- leagues: ‘The yoro when taken was a9 follows: Allirmative—Ald, McCarty, Kane, Melntyre, O'Connell, Graham, «Snith, Petry, Waters, Freneh, Hocker, Seamen, Dreyer, and Powers— 18, Nogative-Ald, Altken, Block, Stewart, Gunder, O'Reilly, Kay, Kenua, Wilkens, Balrd, aml Fritz——10. The Automatic Gas Lamp and Listing Com- pee, Tins a capital of $100,000, and offleoa in Broadway-and Murray streets, in this city. Its “works” argasmali place on Cherry strect, but they contemplate Jarger oves tu Brooklyn, ‘The prinelpal men In the organization are doin W. Barrow, Willlam P. Libby, for many years President of tha Citizons’ Gas-Light Company; AS. Barnes, the publisher; William JL, Galan, tite steamship agent; “Ay Vv. Taney, Unitec Btatos District Attorney; and Wiltlam Hester, publisher of the Slagle newapnver. It was cu- tmored yesterday that Judge Alexander McCue and Col, Abner C, Keeney were large purchasers of the stock, ‘Tha light Is to be the same as now given iu Hoboken, Rochester, Orange, Stat- en dsland, Uridgevort, and Pittsburg, aid the Cotnpany claim tut it is equal to sixteon-candle (power, ‘Tie cost tu the city will ba $250,773, the fowest possible cash price of coal gas buying $853,025, ‘The appropriation of 1870 is (with o nal surplus on mene $977,710, bus the appar- ent surplus of 872,847 will be necded for to- patra, white the cogt of conl ens down to Apel t must of courau be mut, ‘he Coinpany will pro- dat once to orect, ultable works’ on ‘Third street, in Brooklyn, wn voy that they will be prepared to furnish the gas by the specified fine. It is hinted that the Mayor may veto the uetion of the Board, but the vas companies aro firm in their resolye not ta come duwn, 80 that aoa now mensure would ace to be a noces- alty. “ ——— POSSESSION, ‘That which wo had, ae still nos: Though leaves may drop, An ‘No circumstance can make tt leas, Or take Ut from ysall in all. seas ayerythlug the Indian bod, My father was the firat to see through the schemes of the white mien, and he warned his trivo to be rareful about trading with them. Ue had suapiclon of man who scemed so anxious to make moncy. 1 was a boy then, but] remember well my father’s eaution, He had sharper eyes than the rest of our people, My father eautloned his peoole to take no presents, for ‘after awhile,” he safd, “they will claim that you have accoptod pay for your country.’? Since that time four banda of the Nez Perees havo received annultles from the United States, My father was invited to many counclla, and they tried hard to make him sign the treaty, but he was firm ug the rovk, und would not slen away bis home. His re- fusal enuged a difference among the Nez Perces, + + ¢ «My father sont for me. « I saw he was ing, [ took hle hand tn mine. Lo enid: “Sly son, ny boly is returning to my mother earth, and iny apirit ts going very soon to see the Groat Spirit Chief, “When 7 am gone, think of your couutry, You are-the chicf of these people. They luok to you tu'ulde them, Al- sways remeuiber that your father never avid his country. You mitst stop your cara witenaver ouara naked to aly a treaty ecling your ome, A few years moro, and white men will bo all sround sou, ‘They have their oyea on this Jund. My wot, never forget my dyliig words. ‘Chia country holds your father's body. Never gell the bones of your father and your mother.” T pressed my fattier’s hand, ond told bim 1 would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit’ land, I buried him tu thas beautiful valley of winding waters. 1 love that land tnore than all the rest, of ute world. Aman who would not love his father’s grave {a worao than a wild aniinal. + + «. In the cauneil Gow. Howard informed moinahaughty spirit that ha would give my “people thirty days to go back home, collect all thelr stock, and move on to the reservation, say ing: “if you aro not here in that time I shall consider tint you want to fight, and will eund my soldiers to driye you on.'” said; War can be avoided and it ought to boavalded, Twantnowar, My people have always been the frionds of the whitoman, Why are you in such a hurry? [caunot get rendy to moyo in thirty days, Our stock {a svattered, and Boake River fe very high. Jot ue walt until fal), then the river will be low, Wo want thie to hunt up our stock and gather’ supplica for winter." 4 Gen, Howard roplied: ‘If you let the timo run over ono day, the suldiera will bo there to’ drive you on to the reservation, und all your cattle ‘and horses outside of the reservation ut that tino will fall {nto the hands of the white men. 5 I know I had never sold my country, and that T hod no lund tn Lapwat; but fdid not want bloddshed. 1 did not want my pene kid, © did not want anybody killed. “Some of my peo- pio had been murdored by white men, and the ‘white murderers wero never puntaticd for it. I told Gen, Howard about this, and again sald f wouted no war, 1 wanted tho people who lived upon the lands {wos to occupy at Lapwal to have tina to gather their harvest. {sald In my heart thut, rather than have war, I would give up my aunty, C would wive up my father's grave, 1 would give up everythliy rather than havo te blood of white men upon the hands of my people. Gon, Howard refused to allow mo more than thirty days to move my people and thelr stock, {om sure thathe begau to prepare for war ut once. I¢ Gen, Howard had given me plenty of time to gather up my atuck, and treated ‘Tuo-hool- Novl-sute as anion should bo treated, there would have been no war, My (rleuds amoung white mon have blamed me forthe war, I am not to blame, When my paunt mon began the killiug, my heart was hurt. Although [did not justify them, 1 re- membered all the ingults 1 had ondured, and my Dlood was ou fre. Btiil 1 would have taken my people to tha buffalo country without tighting, {f possible, . {could seo no other way toavolla war. Wo moved over to White Bird Greek, sixteen miles away, and thers encamped, intending to collect vur stock before leaving; but the soldiers at- tacked us, and tho frst battle was fought. Wo mumberedin that battle sixty men, and the soldiers a hundred, Tho ght Insted but-n fow aulnutes, wheo the sohiiora retreated befare us for twelve intles, ‘They tost thirty-three Killed and had seven wounded, When an lodian fichts, heonly ehoots to kill; but soluiera shout nt tandom, None of tho soldiers wero sealned, Wo do not bulleve in scalping, vor in killing wounded nen, Soldiera do nut Kill many Tne «tans unless they are wounded and tuft upon the battlo-feld, ‘Then they all Indians, 6 rhe ec had no knowledye of Gen. Milea’, ory until » short gine before he made w churge upon us, cutting our camp in tivo, uud captur- ing nearly all of our horses, About seventy men, myself among them, were cut off. Mv lite tle daughter, 13 yeara of uge, waa with mo [ gaye her u rope, wid told hur to catch a horse and joln tho otherg who worg cut olf from the camp, I have not seen hur since, butt have learoud unit she fa alive and . LI thought of my wife and children, who were vow surrounded by soldiors, and { rugulved to 0 to them or dic, With a prayor in my mouth ty the Groat Spirit Chief who rules aboye, [ dushedl unarmed through the Hine of soldiora. It acemned to me that there were guus on every side, before and behind me, My clothes were cut to oleces und my Lorge was wounded, but 1 was not hurt. As Ll reached the door of my lodze, my wile Handed mie my rifle, saying: ‘Here's your gun, 4 fanld not bear to see my wounded men nn women suffer auy Jonger; we had Joab cnauzh already. Gen, Mites bad prow that we inlght return te our own country with what stuck we bud left, I thoucht- wo could sturt agulu. I beluyed Gen, Miles ort never would Have surrendered, 2 hayes heard that he due been censured fur wmaklug the promiae to’ rus tury us to Lypwat, He could pot have made any other terms with me at that thug. would have held him in chuck untll my frlunds cane to my uasletunce, und then ueither ef the Gun- gral nor thelr suldwrs would bays ever left Beur Paw Mountuty alive, a +e 4 At dust Dos granted pormisston. come to Wasblugton and bring my friend Yol- Jaw Bull and our interpreter with ime. Tam glad woecame. Clave ghuken dands with a prea many Sriends, but there are sino things want bo kuow which na ong seeing AUle_ tu ux- plain Teanngt underytund bow the Guy, Hone aende 8 tan out to tight us, oa It did Miles, and then breaks yla“ word, Suche Gov- ernment has sumethjng wrong sbougit, I vane uot understyud Why su many chiefs ero glowed to tak eu miny difercnt ways, aul promlys Bo tnany different thinga. TF lyve sewn the Great Fainer Cutet (the rresideut), the vext Great Chivf (Secretary of the Interior), the Commis- ¢ may fall, ‘That which fe lout, wo did uot own— Woe only held |p fora day—— A teat by careless breezes blowns No Fate could tuke our own away. Thold it as « changoless law, Prom which no suitl can away of aworye, Woe have that in us which wilt draw Whate'er we need of most dewurva, Eyon as tha magnet to the steel, ‘Our souls are to our bual deviroa, Tho Batu have huarts, aud thoy con fools Thay know what each true iife requires, ‘We think wo loge, whon wo most cain; , ‘Wocu,] Joye ended, ere begun: When slure fade ont, do skies complain, Or glory bu the rising sunt = No Fato can rob wa of our own— No circumstance can muke it les © What Sine removes, was bora lo: For what was aura, wo will poe ELLA 4 New York times No country on the wlobe, unless It he our own, Inproves 60 yayld]y and ateaaily os Japan. With- Iva very short thre tk bug had a new birth; bas revolutinnized "sell fy neurly every dopartjaaut of comineree umd trade. Ite postal busingas, which (s usually repkoned as a inark of growing clytlzatiun, hss yustly Tiereased within o few vei ‘Ths syatepy Was cotablishud funky In April, 1871, and yet it embraces all gur fucllittos excopt the agsortmeut of letters in cure ty tray. sition, Which 1 finpossible tu the absence of rail: ways. ‘lo compensate tor this lacks, postal sav: luge-bunkd: Wero' established fy 1875, and they baye been received with great fuyor, During the lust six months of that year only 19 bunks were founded, and the amutnt deposited, count Wy the yen-us equivalent to the dollar, wow $6,103, For thu tlseal yeur ending lust dung, there were 203 auch bauks, with god, ti4 de- posits. In 1878, the Jettere, postul-curda, nows- wpers, books, ete, tranatmitted through the nails puibyrgd some §10,200,0005 during Javt year they, numbered nearly 138,000,000. Pogtal- curds, Orat used fo 1875, fucreased Frans 9,000,000 Uhat year to aver "10,000,000 lust your. ‘The for- ¢ign mall-matter ungmented lu the game yeurs froin 44,165 to 158,203, which ta very remurliubly, conghlerlig dupauesy oxelualyenges. ‘Fhe dupgn- ese ncome Jast your was 69 percent bn excess of the outlay, thus paying $45,253 Into the watloul treuvury. ‘Tho Government youerally ts adantu- iptercd with aj honusty whieh we enlightened Stepublicaus chn “hardly realize, Last year only to 69 letters wore absolutely loat Uy, theft, ard but 19 of these contained monoy,—S182,—which wns made ood, by the steamor cargying the mails, dapan ts, inaced, an extraurdinary Jand, <r BURNING THE DEAD. ‘Tho Sotontifie Mode of Cremation and Gon- struction of tho Cromatory: ' London Banttary Record. In burning a body the producta or combustion which escape by the chimnoy carry with them, bealdas the gnsca arising from tho perfect de- composition of the body, a certain quantity of orcante particles not entirely burnt, which make thelr preacnee known by that peculiar burnt odor which wa pereelye whon a cloud of smoke Inn auitleiently concentrated state falla to the ground. This organic yolatilized matter, which fa recognized by ita pecultar odor, Is considered by sanftarfans to bo perfeetly innocuous, anid, in fact, it 1s clear that molecules which have been subject toacertain temperature cannot possi- bly contain pestilenttal corms or carry Infection. On the other hand, ft 1s argued that tho sald odor fa by no moans agro¢able, aud, marcover, wives the painful impression that somo particles of the body baye ascaid from the cromatorjuin without bulng perfectly oxidized, and without belng transformed into those vapors which mix with the atmosphere. The thought of auescapa of Imperfeetly deeomoosud cadaverous molo- cules hus the sane metal effect a8 though dur- ing the cremation a part of tho ashes of the body had disappeared and been lost, when, naa matter of fcoling, ve recognize the need. of pre- serving them fn thelr Integrity, It, was necessary, therefore, to find somo mode of stippressing that odor in ordor that its reaence should pot cause annoyance or pain. The remedy wag not difficult. to diseover, In the interlor of the chimney a grating {s vluccd, ovor which fs kept burning o autiiciont quautity ofcoks. The producta of combustion, theri, which escape from the chamber in a bighly- honted condition, pasalng through the coke, be- como entirely puritied, und tho organic matters which had restated the frat combustion suc- cumb to the eccond, -At the boundarica between the furnace and the erematory chamber {t hina always beon found necessary to erect a wall, suparabliig completely the one part from the other. In {a neccasary, in short, that the furnaco should be a closed, roomy chamber, and, on the other band that the crematory should bo plced outelde the same and porfectly free. It Ja necessary that nothing should intervene to disturb the calm which reigns within the ere- tuutory while tho rite of cremation 1a prococd- ings Ks the products of combustion havo to cnvol- ope the corpse from head to foot, so the com- munication botween the crematory chamber and the chimney for the vent of the smoke is nec- essarily opened in the chambor ftecif, at the end opposite to that which communicates with the furnace. It was found much better to open such ao communication In the bottom of the eremetory chamber, rather than in the ceiling, because, Io the latter case, the products of com- bustion drawn upward aro for the most part condensed in that empty space where tha body docs not lie, whereas, In the former case, drawn downward, uliey powruriully compasged the bod: whose destruction it was thelr mission to effect. This smoke conduit, which opens upon the bot- tom of the erematory chamber at one of ita ex- tremitics, desconds ‘to a certain distance, and then, dividing into two, penetrates iuto the lateral walls of the crematorium, within which the two branches wind for a short distwuce horizontally toward the turnace. ‘They then in- eling upward nnd ascend within the walls of the creimatory chamber wntil, on ench elie, they enter the wall of the ceiling, where they most nnd _agafu form ono conduit, which leuds straight to the chimney, into which it opens betwoon the prineipat furnace below and that in the chim- ney. ‘This arrangement hing been devised so us to maintain withio the cromatory 6 quictuoss 80. undisturbedt thot, if destred, the serviva for the dead inight bo sald over it without any tncon- ventenee, nnd go transforming itinto an ultar, It will hardly be needful to explain what fs to be done to Introduce the body into the cremu- tory chamber, uu tu extract the sahes from it, orto describe the necessary apparatus and the forins which linve to be followed in order to carry out those two very important operations witliout any Snconvenfence. To solyo the diftl- eultles belonving to this part of the subject, an Ingenious truck, fnyented by Prof. Celeste Cloricetti for the service of tho first cremato- rum erected in the cemetory of Milan,—which is known under tho namu of its two inventors, PUL and Clericett!,—fs of much essistance, it {sa amall car of from, the feot of which aro car- ried by four frec rollers, by which {t con be moved with the greategt facitlty in any dirce- tlan, When the body has beon brought to the mouth of the crematory it is placed upon'a grating which Is situated on the top of the aah- plate, nut the whole fs then slid {nto the crema. wry chambor, ‘The small coke furnace placed in the chimauey fa supposed tv havo been Ht for some littl tina, This is now the timo to ight the flro fa the crematory chamber also, and the flames and the glowing gas which develop Uhemsulyos from this fre drawn up the chimnoy and penetrate like a torrent inte the flucs, encompagelng tle corpse in every part, aud, being thrown back ogain fron the walls pf the chamber itself, completu the duty of dissolving it, separating the volatile farts, which pags away up the chimney to dls- perso themaclyes In the air, from the flxed parte, which, perfectly purified, remain on the grating and fail {nto the ash-ptt, When the operation is fuished, which can be ascertained by shitting the Hd of a small aperture left fur the cxpress purpose in the door whieh cloaca the month of the ereamotorium, if no eign of flame be yistble, the cromation Is complete. PSYCHOLOGICAL. Komarkable Phonomonna, ‘The Ban Francisco Chronicle publishes an in- torvlow wit noted physlclau of that city who {athe possessor of a pecullar order of mental power, in which he relates the following experi- buce? tive morality and laxur {uatico in 8an Francisev. Thad been but a few months in the efty, and had becomes moderately established in my practice. Early one morning I was called to attend a man who had attained some promiuence as a spectt- Intor und oporator in real estate, Ho had been Aiscovered lying upon the fluor of his lodgings tng dylng coudition from half-a-dozen kulfo wounds, the horrible instrument of bla doath atill remaining whero it hud last beon thrust Into his body to the hilt. penetrating through the right lung. There wero evidauccs of a des- urate strugizle having occurred bafore the un- ‘ortunnte man yielded to bis fate, He was on. tirely unconscious in the spasinodle gasps of death, und he breathed bls last In a very fow moments after {reached the spot, Ag lls last. breath went out T became conscious of a new and mysterious preaonce, and my mind seuned to pasa under the control of a supertor mental powcr, | yielded @ passive obedienco to Influsnice, and inuncdlately the scene fn ‘desth-struggle passed “before my mental view, It aeemad fur un Snstant as {f 1 was mysol€ endeavoring to ward olf a murderous attack, Withone hand my assallant held a auffoeating grin upon my throat, while with the other he plunged the deadly kulfe again and aguin Into my body, £ saw his clenched teeth, and hfe flerce, cruet eyes glonim- fog Into aiine with the maliznaycy of o demon. Buch wae the force anid horror of the impression that Tetaggered nnd fellas if ina faint. ‘The bystanders, who were fuured to sougulnary acunes, supposed that [ had been overcome -by the spectacle of {he murdered man, aud thelr comments were anything but complimentary to my nerve and experience aso physician, But the cool and careful manner in which | subso- quuntly performed the autopsy disalpated what miht have boon 4 fatal suspicion cast upon my profusslonal capavity, [ faund the marks of clepchei Hngers upon the throat of the murder- edimau. iKnow that {had beheld and expert enced the Juchtents of his fleattstrugEle bri: cisely as thoy were {mpreased upon his own mind. ‘The stout, burly man of iy vision, full- whiskered, with a red shirt, slouched hat, nnd a black kerchiof tol foosgly about hls neck, and that. tlereu, Kendle elow of countenance [coud never torget. Hut did nat recognize the man, und tn those daya esnicion was not safe based even upon better foundation than the preten- of w soothsayer, T did not care tu hazard either my life ur wy professional reputation to anmnner that could accomplivh no wood pur pose, “+ Years aftor the occurrence, iu the early part of the (0's, L was returns from a trip to the Eust, when | amet oe otluman on the eteamer on the way up from Panama. He eume abourd atone of tle Mexiean porte, acegmpanied by one of two oll Acquaintances were apecdily made, and the usual suctality on shipboard was cultivated. One evening we were scated at a eames of whats aud the. gantluman | specially refer to ba takep w hand as By. partuor. I waa depeatly #1 leading ont a gull, pud tycld lanced ucpogs the table to catch an fuspiration' from the countenanes uf my partner. Instantly o strange spell came upon me, ‘The features of thu gen- tlewan sssumed a inalignant expression; bis Tall gray beard was restorgd top pable huey he hud ona ylouch bat, o black Kerehilef, ared shirt,—It was the Lorrible fncarpptivg of my vision atandlng buside the murdered mun, The shock overcame jn, and EF recled Hp and helpless from wy chur, A glaseof brundy aud water revived ule, and a disposition tu audden attacks *[t was tn tho fall of 961, inthe days of prim!- of vertigo was the explanation T gave to the eptopath zing group, ‘The following morning the gontleman approashed me while leaning up- on the rait nnd avcosted me with a cokdial aalu- tation. ‘Have wo not mot bofore? he inquired, ‘Tust as yor were taken Hl last evening T seemed to catch a sudden glimpse of famtilarity in your countenanes.’ ‘1 do not know,! Lre- plied; ‘wero you in San Francisco i 517" Yes —ho, as I recollect,’ ho ngaln stammered. Twas Tooling in hile faco ngain; his featurcs acomed again fo gather that horrible distortion of ina- Manity; if eld mons the farciuation of A acl pent, att with a desperate effort | turned away and hurrted from lls presence, No exolannation waa asketl or made on either aide. { have met the gentleinan often asitice,—n wonlthy and re- apected person.—but thera socins to he a repul- alve fores between ts, and of mutital accord we keop aloof, Do wa know each other's minds? I cannot toll,’ ————— “HAZING A FRESHMAN.” Yo What a Tolegrapher Mas to Faco When Enters n New Office, The Operator, ‘The subject of Hazing," Io our varlous col- Jegea, {9 ove that has receive! more or less com- mont from nearly every paper in the Unton, and hog been unanimotsly denounced as a disgrace to our famous Institutions, ‘The process known as “bazing? frequently aubjcats the * frosh- man” to the most intense pliysical torttire, and yet acemsto produce the groatest merrimont for thoso who bnye the vietlm incharge. Did {t ever occur to nn operator that wo have “haz fu? among ourselves? Moat of us have beon victims. Although, physlcally, we may have suffered comparatively little, yet the montal agony that o "freshman operator {8 fre« quently forced to andure fa pitttul in tha extreme. He walks into an ofMlce full of atranga faces, not o friendly hand to shake, witht nothing to recommend film but his ability as an operator, und his fupliciv confdency in that ability for his only oncourazement. Io hardly enters the office bufura that telegraph. or's “dovil,” the meoasunyer-boy, remarks to o comrade: “dimmy, stab de tile on dat bloat,?? which, translated, 1s underatood to call the comrade’s attention to the peculiar style of bat which happans to adorn the head of the “freshman. This doca not pave a great tendancy to create a feellug of encouragement {o the breasts of the § freshinan,” and the smil- ing elouces from the operatora do not scrvo to lighten hia heart to any extent, He approaches the mauager’s desk, and, after five or ten minutes moro of agony to the “frestiman,” the uianager condeacends to wlanco upward, and, in atone full of thunder, bluntly taqulres, “ Well, air, what {3 it?" ‘The “freshinan’? states his business, and the manager proposes to give bitn atrial, Accordingly hie {3 assigned foun instru ment, and told thit tie is to “receive a apecial,” His feollngs at this juncture are about the same ng those supposed to be expericneed by a mv who ‘la about to be hung, Norvously grasp- ing the pen, he Bains to copy, the ‘perspira- tlon trickles down his hand, which makes that member adhero to the blank, ns pon sticks fast, the ink is the thickest ever cn- countorad, ad thero {a nothing left for hin but to break, Caating n guilty glance about him to sce if ony one {8 looking, he reaches for the key ond. oxplains to the seuder that, he [sa new olan—" please take it steady '’; but this only makes matters worse. ‘The sonder Logis to “whoop 'em up,” and ag the cola cbills run down his spinal column, tho “freshman's” pen Inditea characters upon the blank resumbling the Chinesa bleroglyplica on a tea box. This torture usually ovcuples about half an bour, when tho welcome “nm {alls avothingly upon bisear. He breathes a sigh of relief, sud looks about iim, Behind hin etand halt o dozen operators, Whose grinning countenanccs would convey the impression tit thoy were about to explode from the effeeta of suinethius exceedingly ludicrous. Acouploof messengers: in the crowd ateo betray the Idea that sume- thing unuatally amualug bas occurred. Iu ao inoment light begins to dawn upon thu 'fresh- man? —he j4 the yietin of a joke. A glunce in auther direction discloses the fuct that the most rapid sender in the office has been trauamitting to him from the coluinns of a daily paper, for the amusement of, the “boys. If he accepts -the situation a8 a joke bo fs Initiated, but, if ho ‘becomes angered, ho Is atill a * freabinan,”? i . THEATRICAL REHEARSALS. Tho Stngo in tho Glare of Hay—Somo Auec- dotes from the Promptor's Iux, ew York Times, ‘Tho orcana of the stage havo a fascination above most other mystoriog, ant the nseurance that any investigation of them must lead to piti- Jess disilluslonment does not discourage ‘or divert.a prying Interest concerning them, To bo present at a rebenrsal, to eoo the undraped stage from ‘one of the wings, and to hear how the niauager behaves toward his company when mingling among them without an audlunce, to be weandalized by the conversation futerpolated. in tho text of the drama—this fe a Woon, souzht importunately, and through many channels, abuye the most exhilarating of other diyerstona,. and the atage is probably much botter for the fact that it {s seldom granted, At any rate, re- heargals aro not chicorful or stimulating. Tho stago.undraped has the atmosphere and vagus droariness of the primitive theatro—a barn; the auditoriuta, with the lights out und tho seats vacant, capes with magnified emptiness, and tha manager is apt to be brusque and dogmatic. Ifvnc ts captivated by the sweet wspoct of some favorite actress, who has been known to hin only from "the front of the house," inte aging tho bitter disenchantinent ho would euler were the maunor of hor professional intercourse: with the manager at rohearsala Uleviosud. Shu (reciting a now partj—"T have sacrificed avery- everything to dlenry,—my mniden innocence, iny hopes of happiness, my——"—— ‘The Manurer (aevarely)—“Stoo! When you say *T have sac- rificed everthing to Honry, you must maku a re- signed gesture, os If you felt the xueriiice to bo worth something; and when you say ‘my malden Innocence,’ try and ayoll smiling, os you did just now.” She (madj)—"1 don't do anything of the ort. Then it was the gas. thot made (t seem eo," retorts the muatager, and a oinute later he attacks auuther actrees Inthls fashion, ' Miss Montinoruncy, don't throw your eyes about fi tut way; you aro always looking at the orchestra atolls.” ‘1 dowt look at the orchestra stalts,"” Misa Montmarency hotly reaponds, und, heed- leas of her denial, the taauoyor continues: A oud actress is wo cnwrapped Ia her part, that the world ouda for her at the footluzhta.” | Fid- dlestiche! murmurs tit lady ju ay widertoug, aa the manager devotes himself to Misa Hhyh- Oyer: “Mies Highilyer, pronouuce the word ‘borrowing ' dve thes over, which you alway pronounce farrowing. 4 H-h-harcowlngs thera]? articulates Migs {tshtyer flerely, and the next ong censured is Misa Montgomery, 1 haye told you, Mtigs Moutgomery," prsces ja the manager, to assume on outraged uxprossion when you are askeil to betray your familly for gold iund you don't Juol outraged in the Teust,” [shall luok outraged at the performunce,” tn- slate the actress. * Al, that le whut you all way,” adds the manager witha sigh, * and when the performance conus you are ull og bad as ovor. Some good stories ara told of rahearenls, ‘The Managemont of the London Haymarket once dl. greased from its unual custom to the extent of producing “Richard JIL," and borrewell the uevessary armor from Astloys, ‘The wight pro- vious ta the upening performance a dress re- hearsal was held, and all wept well until te battle scence. Verhape aga joke the Calely and Jatelige were not pormitied to wear thelr beavers uy, snd they wauderud about tke two animated Dutch ovens, None of the armors fitted the wearors, and Jo the final combat be- tween tha candidutes for the crown, the Eurl of Richmond, on Mttug We sravup to strike at Richard, found {t would uot conte down aaota. Some of the helincts worn by the eojdlers, hug. ing needed much coaxing before they cqyjd be Het on the hegds of the wearers, Berentiously rofused como off againg und an unfor- tunate super, who had been upset two or three fines, mich to the, antigument of is vorades, wos so disgusted thut he was heard to cay, “EC this ormor Hodge fous on, T shull re- tlre from the prafesslon," a serious loss, which was averted by the utter failure of the produc- tion, An interpolation of Quinu’s at rehearsg! veaulted tragically. Playing tu “Cato” up die Drary Lane Theatre, Willtams, who acted the -Uessenqer, in dell vorkng the sentence, Civar gends lealth to Jato," gave such 9 peeullorly Judicrous pronuncintion fo tha last word tat Quinn replicds © Yea, amd be’a sent a protty messenger.” Willlame challenged him there and then, and Quivy, being thy better awordy- nan, readily dépatehed hin. Queer ordere to the atugo workinen are sometimes Interpolated Ju the Nnee of the part, und gna of Michard’s best-known speeches haa: boon thuy trena- formed; ‘*Hence babbling dreams, you threaten hero iu val, Where's that ~~ age-man?) Pete again,” 4 ‘The moat experlenced actor fs apt tu flud bia longueunruly at times in performances, and much oftcner ot rehearsgly. Quinn was reteurslny Lal. suceund Pes Wotllogton Sylvia ta tas © Kecrulte {ng Oblcer,” a ply, selgont heard of nowadays. Qyoth Quin: “Sylyia, how old wero you wien your mother wae married} Alr, Quinn t! bxelaimed the judiuant Peg. Psbaw! 1 inean bow old were you when your mother was burnt? “Your questions aro unanswerable,” replied the Intly; "but, acvordlng to the prompts book, Eean tell you how old Cas who my mother died.” Annctroas baving to ask Jf romebouy retained ble tnfluonce in Parliament, dnqtutreds “Does he still retain tld infants iu Partiamenty Another ong declared: "A candle ts consin; along the Rallery with a mau fn bis hand; and another astonished her fellow-pinvera by qn. nouncing that “Betty had locked the Koy ant earrled away the dvor in her pocket.” ‘The second net of Sheridan's *Cerltte? ahnyyg arehcarsal as it would Jrobatly atrike an un. Pestansitial person inthe nuditorium, but re- hearents are not usually ludierous tn any pare ticular to those actlyely engaged In them, (hough they may appear so from the ineongruitics they prezent to one unfamiliar with them. ‘They are exneting, Inboriuts, exhausting. «Their vtlet interest fs in the indication they givo of the care, aludy, perseverance, discipline, and drill tha preparation of a play entalls, i same " busi. ness" I» repented again and again with tedious repetition. The samo word {3 uttered and reit. erated with changing deurees of emphasis and, inflection until what seems tobe the proper shade of meantys fing been acquired. ‘The prompter becomes petulant, the stage manager wrothy, the performers indignant. No doubt 3 a byporerltfeal person will bo dls ae tte.” ther Cacnulls’: ott this labor sl anxiety aro invisible at many theatres, but i€ tho performance as thio sees ft Incks finish, the deilcieney has been vantly: reduced by the rehearsals. When amay play A being produced by a stock company, tho tralning continucs many weeks, bogiiuning with undress rehearsals on tho dliniy-hghtod Benge, without scenery or auxiliaries, and ending with a full-dress reticarsal as complete ns the onening performance. ‘Tho toll of the avtors wha ara playing in one plece while another is fu active preparation leaves Httle tne for sleep, Tho current play {s over, porlinps, at 11 o'clock, and it ja midnight before the players reach their homes. ‘They are called to the theatre at 9 o'clock uext moraing fora flint relearsnl, which, continues until 8 or 4 o'clock in the afternoon, The playis produced at 8 o'clock the same eventog, anid, as it docs not end until after 19, the completo nervous, inoutal, and physical prostration of the artists by that timo needs only, be referred to. {fife the incongrultics of a rehonranl—the old adinixtures of the poetical atid the «dramatic with the prosnic—thiut most attract the outsiders who finportunately sce the privileyzo of being spectators, ‘Tho amusement afforded is sunilor to thatderlved from the peculfar form of Mr W. 5, Gilbert's humor in Engaged," by the {nconsequential and unpremeditated transition froin a yeln of exaltation to the lovel of pitiful commonplace. ‘fhe first rehearsal witnessed by the writer was that of oh emotional drama adapted from the French by Mr. Charles Fechs ter, who also took the Juading part und cons ductad the management. As Wo entered tho theatre the first act was approaching a thrilling donouemunt, developed with all the affeetin: intensity which that great though neglected artist can give, The heretic swoous in a tem- pest of passion, and, according to the manu. script, there fea “quick curtaln,” but, the cure tain being dispensed with at the rehearsal, Mr. Fechter quickly aroso from a knecling unt agonized poatitte to his fect, and walked jn a business-like fashion to on table whoro ho’ had left his sill hat, vaus- ing tor o moment to give the proporty-min going round abuge on account of a bieket that had been left upon the stage, ‘The sudden change of motive, volec, and purport was gro- tesque, A moment alterward Mr. Feehter was Jolling in the orcheatra-stalls dressed im hrown velveteen, which reminded one tore of an En: glish gamekeeper than a cusmopolitan actor. ‘As the play progressed the dialogue nnd action wero broken by his impcrious orders to the cas man, the acene-painter, and the other perforins ers, ono of whom bad in bis part a remark about the approaching ulaht, which should have been for “lower Hehts." ‘The gas coutinued to Ine stendily, however, and a tender scene was suspended whit the deltuquent attendant was berated. Mr, Fuchter 6 one of the most exacl- lug of managers, und the rebearsal cantinted until after 1 o'clock the next morning. ‘She play was produced at nleut and proved un utter aol pathetic failure. 1a there, after all, enough ins rebearsal to justify the craylg which exists to seconel Old Mr. Buckstune tutls a story of a clergyman who took a peep bebind tha seenes of the London Haymurkat, and, after a survey of the surroundings, exclaimed, fo 9 tone of astonished disappointment, * Well, well, [don't seu any thts wrong foluy on; I fancied there was agurt of Saturnalia bere every night!" THE CHILL-BOLIVIAN WAR, Causes of the Conflict — Chilian Opinton About tho Provocation Which Bolovis Has Givew, . Panama, March 10.—Tho Chilian Zémer of Feb. 15 zives the following acount of the be ginuing of the diflculty between Chill sud Boltvins “ Although at the present timo we are most probably de facto at war with Boltyla the Goy- ernment bas malatained a rescrve on the sub Ject rather more than prudential, and, for all ro know ofiiclully to the contrary, the two countries miuht be on the best of terms, On ‘Tucsday, howeyer, {t was known thata tolegram was re- ecctyed from Benor Videla, our Minister at Ls Paz, reporting that the Bolivian Goyeraticat had suspended the law imposing an oxport (sz on nitrate, in deference to Chili's urgeut demande, but had rescluded ‘the contract colobrated with ‘tho Antofaxusta Com: pany! ‘That ts, ft hail renounced a claim for $100,000 antl cunfiacated property worth $4,000 000. This shameless act of hud “faith and apoll- ation naturally, created a storm of tndignation here among all clusaes, ye pubic opluton was so deuidedly in favor Jf maintatuing Chills rights by force uf arms, If nocessary, tnt the Government could notrefase the chatia, oven it go Inclined. On Wednusdas, the t2th,—the an uiversary of the battle of Chacabueo, a date doar tu the Chitian people—au tmmense gatl- tring was held in the Intundencla Square, manifest the public tre for energetic meat Urey? und we subsequently ascertuln ihaton tho evenlny of the sume day the following tele graplie diapateh was sent to the Intundunle of Sautiagzo, slzued by the Mintater of the Interiors ‘e'the Government of Hollvla, diureearding our remuanstrancos, hag decreed the confiscatiul of the property of our citizens, taking poste aion of the nitrate deposits without delguiyy, any explanation whatever,’ ‘rhe Government of Chitt tins recalled Is Minister, and the national troops ure already co route tu uccuny Antofagasta und other pulots that muy be cousidered advisable, Stnco thea thure lias buen an fiveseunt movemont fi navél and ialittury cireles, and, Judglig frum appear auces, the Government fs determined to ab with onergy und determination, Tk tg not be Maved that the contllet wil ba very fret 0 Bolivia ts unable to offer any serious reelstance elther by lind or aeay and, topographieally us well as fu population, that coast ts more Coltua than Mulfviun. Some apprelieuaion Is entertuli- ed in cortuln quarters that Peru will juterfere) but it nay well be doubted whother tht cout try has not ga much aa it can do at present [0 kop Its own Louse tn order, At any rate the only step bitherte taken by Pert has) been W olfer ita survices ag a nicdlator, which offer wal elvilly but firiusly declined, and thu stories elseus Inted a wack or two back regarding the pret ency of Pornylan fronelada in Antofagusta have turned out to ba destitute of tounlation Holivin's conduct has been marked on. thls oveusion with such oa eynfeal disrexart of common honesty that, combined with her privlous violution of — tho _ treallt# culebratad, tho Chiltan Governmont may well be jus fn refusing to outer Into any future pt regarding the territory tu dispute and inaleting on retaining posscasion of it usan integral part of the national territory ofter ih shall onca have beon assumed, Any fuss thit may befall Bolivia by such au uct will by thor oughly merited as a’penalty for hor trickery dishonesty.” STARVATION IN DOLIVIA, : A correspoudont of -thy Callao south Pacift Times, welting from, Opuro, Yollvla, Leb. 1 seyys,t ut Hs gente ‘af the counpry. fa, most chr teeta Brabvattay ts. atdring very ous in the fatd.:" Byeryiniord you co'you ‘ r ‘stumble on dea bodtes of mou, wonten, and childrelt, Un te coast you uppenr to think that Cochabambs thu only place where scarcity oxlste, wiilct quite od inlstake, Hereaboute ft ta aulte ava bade Tho most part of the Endlans are Hyiy on acl gona, wid (nv many instances persons have beet found dead while searching fur this: plant. ily fncronse the fuintne, iost crops tn this nels Lorhood have been destroyed by froab nnd the drought, particularly the potato crops, und f am aftaid this yeur Will bu worgu than the laste Tu the valleys, In parts, crops ure fia fulr stat’ Dut as notane quarter the amount hus i planted of former ycara, all seeds must eCarTCO. —— * What Thoy Caino For. New Orleans Times, Bpeaking of & Won dancing on the alee yemjuds 49 of watory about Mev. Saxon avd ip Hojeombs, thay whom nu stabjer, ateullee aa nver drow te breath of Ife, 3b waa when bone ‘Thompson and ter pretty blondes ware ki My thelr way into. public ‘udimbration here. Dr Jolvambo ts poly a mun, If he ts Dr. Holcomle, but when be found thut Mrs, Basan occupied th nest Ju front of nly ut one of these perioral: ances, he thought some excuse for hla presen was necogaury, vo he Tegued pyer aud said RS thatiady: “dust remark ber wonderfully i preawye countynuncy, 2 came here to wal ” thy olay of her feutures.” You didl did yoo) cried Stra, Saxun, “und d cums bese bo wal the ploy of ber beye.”?